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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  beckylynn | Jul 22, 2009 |  A brutal story about hard times in the hill country of southern Missouri. It's a tough life growing up with pot farms and meth labs as the major (and only) "industry", but 17-year-old Ree is a Dolly "bred'n buttered" and is up to the task of saving her family. The disappearance of the father before his day in court puts the family home and land in jeopardy. Ree enters the no-man's land of distant and unhospitable kin to find her father so that they won't be "left like dogs in the fields" without their ramshackle house. The poetic writing combined with the gritty language was an interesting contrast in this almost myth-like tale. Ree is one of the most memorable characters I've come across in a coming-of-age novel. She can take a beating, handle a gun, and skin a squirrel with ease, while having a tenderness beyond her years for her two younger brothers and her mentally ill mother. This gripping life-interrupter packs a lot of emotional intensity in its 193 pages, but it is definitely not for the faint of heart. (  )2  Donna828 | May 15, 2009 | I had a very difficult time with this book. It was difficult to read, both because it was written in the Ozark dialect, and also because it was, well, difficult to read. Everything that happens in the book is written so matter-of factly, like it's perfectly normal for a teenaged girl to be beaten by a group of adult women because she's asking too many questions. Even Ree, the teenager, seems to accept this as the way of the world. That being said, it is a very powerful book, more so because I suspect that these things happen daily in that area. I didn't like it, I didn't enjoy it, but I can't call it a "bad book." (  )1 tloeffler | May 14, 2009 | A coming of age story about a young girl searching for her missing father in order to save the family home from repossession. ( ) peggyar | Jul 25, 2008 | http://tinyurl.com/4qed7x Although I guess this novel is technically a mystery, it feels less like one than most. It's gritty, harsh and honest-- you are in the Ozarks living this teenager's life, feeling her emotional and physical hurts. And because it's written by a man from that part of the country, you are more willing to believe that this torturous existence and the society that surrounds it are true-to-life. I wonder how Woodrell would do on books not set in the Ozarks, because the book would be nothing without that. Of course, I'm perfectly fine with him keeping on in this vein. What's the oft-used phrase? "Write what you know." If only I could figure out how the blue bag fit into the picture-- is this a plot hole on Woodrell's part, or am I just missing something? (I paged through twice after finishing.) ( )1 khage | Apr 15, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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The storyline is pretty simple, but the characters are enthralling. I highly recommend this book. (